Southern Paiutes call this place Unka-koh-vah-wong-weents, meaning “Red Face Standing.” In these bowl-shaped amphitheaters stands the world’s greatest concentration of irregular rock spires called hoodoos. That word comes from a mistranslation of the Paiute word “Oodoo,” which describes fear among faces and forms in the rocks. A Southern Paiute sacred oral tradition says the hoodoos are ancient “Legend People” turned to stone by the trickster god, Coyote, as punishment for bad deeds. In 1875, Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his family joined other settlers in the valley to the east. To access timber, he built a road that ended in an amphitheater of pink cliffs, and others began calling it Bryce’s Canyon. Bryce and his family moved to Arizona in 1880, never anticipating that his name would remain more than a century later.